Revisiting The Barnes-bocage Big FiveThe final issue of New Orleans Music included an article about the magazine's origins - its ancestry can be traced to Eureka, a short-lived journal from the early 1960s....

Marlene Verplanck (1933-2018)Marlene VerPlanck, who recorded 24 albums for Audiophile in a career that stretched sixty years back into the Swing Era, died January 14. She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer back in November but continued to work until a few weeks ago even though the effort necessary to travel to the club and sing took everything out of her....